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 | | Soon after their arrival, the Biluim proceeded to the agricultural school of Mikveh-Israel, set up by the Jewish philanthropist Moses Montefiore in the 1870's to propagate Jewish self-sufficiency in Palestine. |
 | | By night, once the trespassers were detected, the young men would set out on horseback, the older men on foot, and after giving them a thrashing, the trespassers would leave and the Jewish settlers would return to their village, "where the women.would be waiting to receive them, their faces full of admiration". |
 | | After the cooperative experiment had failed and was surviving almost solely due to the generosity of Edmond de Rothschild, Chissin could not accept surviving on charity alone and wished to support his wife and family by his own efforts. |
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